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The BBC and English pronunciation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2008
Abstract
The Director of the BBC Pronunciation Unit follows our recent articles on RP and the Queen's English with a review of how his corporation has approached such thorny issues over the six decades of its existence
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